Vault and safe doobs



UNITED STATES PATENT DFFTCE.

F. C. GOFFIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF SECURING VAULT AND SAFE DOORS, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,376, dated November 2, 1852.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F. C. GOFFIN, of the `city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new` and Improved Mode of Securing or Fastening the Doors of Safes, Bank-Vaults, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference be-ing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specifica-tion, in which- Figure l, is a perspective view of the front of a safe, the door being open. Fig. 2, is a vertical section of ditto, the door being closed. The front of thel safe and the door is bisected through the center Y, Y, Fig. 3 being the line of section. Fig. 3, is a horizontal section ditto, the door being closed, X, X, Fig. 2, being the line o-f section. Fig. 4 is a section showing the manner in which the top and bottom flanches may be operated.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists in securing or fastening the doors of safes, bank vaults et cetera, by means of movable lanches attached to the door and arranged as will be hereafter described said ianches forming a continuous bolt all around between `the door and its mouth-pfiece, by which means the door is rendered more secure against re and force and less liable to get out of order than by any other mode of construction.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A, represents the front of a safe.

B, is the door, and the opening C, is the mouth or mouth-piece of the safe. The door B, is provided with a lanch D, on its upper part and a similar flanch E, on its lower part. These fianches are attached by pivots (cz) to the inner edges of the door, as seen in Fig. l. The outer edges (In) of the anches are consequent-ly movable. The flanches are formed of metal plates and are nearly as Wide as the door is thick.

F, F, are cleats attached to the top and bottom of the mouth-pieceI C, and at the front part. The outer edges (b) of the flanches bear or catch against these cleats F, F, when the door is closed, as seen iii Fig. 2.

The flanches D, E, may be operated in any proper manner. In Fig. 4, one method is shown. G, is a disk attached at about the center of the crust of t-he door. This disk Gr, has two rods H, I, attached to its face by pivots (c) (c), the pivots being near the edge of the disk. Now by turning the disk the rods H, I, will be drawn toward the disk or be thrown from it and as the ends of the rods H, I, are attached to the outer edges (b) of the anchesD, E, as seen at (el), Fig. 1, it follows of course that by turning the disk G, both lanches or the edges (b) of the flanclies will be elevated or depressed, and the edges (b) of the flanches D, F, be made to bear or catch against the cleats F, F, or be relieved from them, as desired. The disk G, has a handle or knob attached toits arbor or axis, said knob or handle being on the outer side of the door.

J, is a lanch attached to the side K, of the mouth piece. This flanch is attached by pivots (c) (c) to the side K, the pivots (e) (e) passing into the cleats F, F, in the top and bottom of the mouth piece, see Fig. l. The inner edge (f) of this lanch consequently moves in and out or toward the side K, of'the mouth piece or from it. The sides or edges L, of the door B, are somewhat beveled, as also the sides of the mouth piece. The flanch J, when the door B, is closed catches and bears against a cleat or projection (g) on the side of t-he door at its inner edge, as seen in Fig. 3.

(i) is a rod attached to the side of the lanch and passing through the side of the safe. See Fig. 3. This rod is for the purpose of operating or showing how the flanch J, may be operated.

The side of the door B, near where the hinges are attached has a projection (j) running its whole height. This projection, when the door is closed, fits in a corresponding recess in the side M, of the mouth piece. See Fig. 3.

The construction of the lanches being now described and shown, it will be seen that when the door is closed a continuous bolt is formed all around the door and between the door and its mouth piece and the door is thereby rendered more secure. The spaces between the door and its mouth piece is closed, thereby making the door air tight in its mouth piece when locked, and also more secure against fire and force.

The door is the most vulnerable part of a safe. Consequently burglars always attack this part and attempt to piek the lock or blow off with gun powder the crust or outer part of the door, so as to reach and withdraw the bolt. By my improvement this method of reaching the interior of a safe is guarded against, for if the crust or outer side of the door is blown off they cannot reach the lock, for it is not within the door, and they would be compelled to pick or work through the filling and inner crust or casing before getting into the interior of the safe.

I do not claim the employment or use of a detached flanch, or single lock bolt, operating similar to the flanches herein described for that has been previously used, but,

Having thus described the nature and opall around between the door and its mouth-` piece, preventing the admission of air into the safe which is thereby rendered secure.

against ireand the door against force.

F. C. GOFFIN.

Witnesses: i

S. H. WALES, E. C. POLHAMUS. 

